( t data andtreatment protocols every tw...)The International Myeloma Foundation Says Data Reported at a Global,Medical Meeting in Greece Demonstrates Improved Survival for a Wide,Range of Myeloma Patients,Health

VELCADE has been available to patients, who have relapsed after a previous treatment, in the United States since 2003 and in Europe since 2004. VELCADE as a single agent shows a median overall survival in this patient population of two and a half years (29.8 months) with "robust response rates" regardless of age. VELCADE in combination with DOXIL(R) was approved in May 2007. Data from a follow-up to a Phase 3 multi-national clinical trial shows that this combination further improves the probability of survival by 41%. Among the findings presented from an open label Phase I/II study evaluating 54 patients, when VELCADE is combined with melphalan and prednisone in newly diagnosed patients who do not go on to have transplants, survival was 85% the strongest 3 year survival rate demonstrated to date.

REVLIMID, an oral drug, is the newest of the novel therapies. This is the first conference since its European approval earlier this month; it is already approved in the United States for use in combination with dexamethasone as a treatment for multiple myeloma in patients who have been previously treated. Among the findings presented, in patients who have relapsed or not responded to a previous treatment, the 35 month median survival using REVLIMID in combination with dexamethasone has been characterized as the "highest response rate and longest overall survival" reported so far from two large randomized controlled Phase III trials that enrolled more than 700 patients worldwide. Importantly, it was previously reported that in patients newly diagnosed with multiple myeloma, in a large randomized Phase III trial evaluating more than 400 patients, REVLIMID with low dose dexamethasone demonstrated what has been called an "unprecedented" 98% one year survival in patients under 65 and 95% one year survival in patients 65 and over.

Combining these two powerful agents, VELCADE AND REVLIMID, produces "robust and du
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